Conceptions of Sexuality and the Undead Vampire
This article explores the relationship between sexuality and the undead from Victorian England to present day vampire narratives
Sexuality
The Lesbian Panic, Victorian Desires and the Gothic Genre
Though Sedgwick nods towards lesbian literary history in this passage, she underplays its important status in her discussion of homosexual panic
Women’s Decadent Sexuality in the Nineteenth-Century
Many people associate the term Victorian with the notion of sexual repression.
The Literary Invitations into the Nineteenth-Century Erotic
Indeed, our fascination with the Victorian erotic unknown seems to derive largely from depictions of such anomalous practices as child prostitution and sexual slavery or of the paradox of wilfully maintained sexual ignorance and unchecked libertinism.
Not all Drag Queens are Born Equally: The Gender Identity
Drag queens allow a break in the heteronormative gender guideline while also reinforcing the social image of what it means to look like a woman.
Promethean Desires: Historiography of Victorian Sexuality
Figures of scientists and engineers emerge during the nineteenth-century as icons of masculinity distinct from either the figure of the magician or the figure of the military hero.
Queenship Love and Separation in the Age of Mistresses
Mistresses neither took oaths, participated in public life nor intervened in assemblies.
Androgyny and Gender Within the Gothic Subculture
The theme of this article is androgyny and gender blurring within the Gothic subculture.
Sexual Bondage Deviances, Domination and Submission
The definitions, beliefs, practices and the importance of consent within the Leather and Bondage, Domination, Sadomasochism communities.
An Overview of the Current BDSM Subcultures
Apart from a few studies, relatively little sociological attention has been accorded the BDSM subculture.
Middle-class City Mysteries and Porn-Gothic Fiction
The mysterious places in city mysteries novels serve as grounds for the presentation of sensational porn-gothic fiction.
Homosexual Vampires, Lesbians, and the Dark Ladies
This article discusses the Lesbian Gothic romantic fiction, as a feminist affirmation, and as prescriptive, community-building activist discourse.
Neo-Victorian Deviants And The Logics Of Perversion
The neo-Victorian transmedia performance of Emilie Autumn, in the light of the “disproportionate attention” given to sensationalist tropes in feminism.
The Origins Of The Torturous Pleasures In Gothic Masochism
One of the most popular topics of discussion when it comes to the modern Gothic, is the sexual subtext that seems to permeate the texts written during the fin de siècle.
